Visual ModalTM

VT-570

Credit: 4x Diagnostics

The Visual Modal™ package combines all of the features of the Visual ODS Pro™ package with the features of the VES-4000 Basic Modal Analysis option.  The Basic Modal Analysis option provides all of the tools you need for extracting modal parameters from experimental vibration measurements (FRFs). With Visual Modal™ you can identify the frequency, damping & mode shape of the modes of a structure from experimental data.

Modal parameter estimation (curve fitting) is done in three steps:

  1. Count the number of modes using a Mode Indicator function
  2. Estimate the modal frequency & damping for each mode
  3. Estimate a modal residue (a mode shape component) for each mode & each measurement.
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Visual ModalTM Features

  • Mode Indicators for counting modes. Either a Complex Mode Indicator Function (CMIF) or a Multivariate Mode Indicator Function (MMIF) can be calculated, and all resonance peaks are counted above a scrollable noise threshold
  • Frequency & damping curve fitting. Either the Local or the Global MDOF Orthogonal Polynomial method can be used, with extra polynomial terms to compensate for out-of-band modes
  • Residue curve fitting. Either the MDOF Orthogonal Polynomial method or the SDOF Peak cursor method can be used
  • Quick Fit. Automatically executes all three curve fitting steps with minimal user interaction
  • Frequency & damping estimates are graphically indicated on the Mode Indicator graph
  • A curve fit function is synthesized and overlaid on each measurement to graphically confirm each curve fit
  • Selected measurements and frequency bands can be used to improve modal parameter estimates
  • All modal parameter estimates and curve fitting functions are saved with each measurement
  • FRFs can be synthesized using modal parameters
  • Modal Assurance Criterion (MAC). A bar graph and spreadsheet of the MAC values between all mode shape pairs. If MAC = 1, two shapes are the same.  If MAC < 0.9 two shapes are different.
  • Shape Difference Indicator (SDI). A bar graph and spreadsheet of the SDI values between all mode shape pairs. If SDI = 1, two shapes have the same values. If SDI < 0.9 two shapes have different values
  • Modal Participation. Displays the Real part, Imaginary part, and Magnitude of the modal participation factors that result when a set of shapes is curve fit to another set of shapes.
  • Mode shapes can be re-scaled between Residue and UMM mode shapes
  • Modal parameters can be imported & exported using the Universal File Format (UFF)
  • Mode shapes can be imported from Ansys, Emerson Process Management (CSI), FEMAP, LMS, I-DEAS, NASTRAN, Ono Sokki, Rockwell Automation Emonitor, Spectral Dynamics Star disk files

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